TWiGCP — “tail -f, Spanner for devs, Monitoring QL, and new regions”
Happy new year and here’s to wishing 2021 treats you all well. This is episode 2⁸ of TWiGCP. Thank you all for your continued readership and support!
Top GCP stories for these past few weeks include :
- Google Cloud announces new regions (Google blog)
- Introducing Monitoring Query Language, or MQL (Google blog)
- Cloud Logging gets real-time log searching (Google blog)
- Cloud Spanner database adds new features for developers (Google blog)
From the “Security best practices” department :
- What you can do to better encrypt your security keys in Google Cloud (Google blog)
- GKE private cluster with a bastion host | by Peter Hrvola (medium.com)
From the “Network product feature walkthroughs” department :
- Routing TCP traffic with Traffic Director (cloud.google.com)
- VPC — Multiple network interfaces overview and examples (cloud.google.com)
From the “Parallelizing C++ applications on Google Cloud” department :
- Running C++ apps with the help of Pub/Sub and GKE (Google blog)
From the “The future is closer than you think” department :
- Multicloud data analytics possible with BigQuery Omni (Google blog)
From the “Digging into Cloud Spanner and Cloud SQL” department :
- Behind the scenes of Cloud Spanner’s ExecuteQuery request (Google blog)
- Cloud SQL with private IP only: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly | by guillaume blaquiere (medium.com)
From the “12 days (and counting) with Cloud Workflows” department :
- Day #1 thru #12 with Cloud Workflows (glaforge.appspot.com)
From the “Compliance, assets, …” department :
- Monitor VPC-SC violations on your GCP org with Data Studio | by Lorenzo Caggioni (medium.com)
- How to Discover Your Sap HANA Assets in Google Data Catalog | by Marcelo Costa (medium.com)
From the “Custom-built PyTorch environment for TPUs” department :
From the “Put your detective skills to work with BigQuery” department :
From the “Visualizing Hadoop” department :
- Connecting your visualization software to Hadoop on Google Cloud (cloud.google.com)
- Architecture for connecting visualization software to Hadoop on Google Cloud (cloud.google.com)
From the “This could come in handy” department :
- SFTP access to Google Cloud Storage | by Neil Kolban (medium.com)
From the “Possibly your most important roadmap” department :
- Migration to Google Cloud: Choosing your migration path (cloud.google.com)
From the “Glue Code As a Service” department :
- Google Cloud Functions for Cloud Dataprep | by Victor Coustenoble (medium.com)
- Streaming Data into BigQuery using Google Cloud Run | by Soumendra Mishra (medium.com)
- Running effective Node.js apps on Cloud Functions (Google blog)
From the “customers and partners solving real-world problems with GCP” department :
- A Behind-The-Scenes Look At Our Petascale Video Processing Architecture For Cloud Video AI-Powered Annotation (blog.gdeltproject.org)
- Flywheel leverages Google Cloud managed services (Google blog)
- A sample EDA design verification workflow on Google Cloud (Google blog)
- Data Analysis to Power Wind Kites | by Priyanka Vergadia (medium.com)
- Smart home company uses Bigtable cloud databases (Google blog)
From the “all things multimedia” department :
- [Podcast] Data Centers — Google (google.com)
- [Video/Demo] Say hello to ML training in VR (youtube.com)
- [Talk] Running Kotlin on Google Cloud (youtube.com)
- [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode 133 — Akri, with Kate Goldenring (kubernetespodcast.com)
From the “Preview, GA, or what?” department :
- [GA] Cloud SDK 322.0.0
- [GA] Cloud Spanner eur6 and nam12 Multi Regions
- [GA] IAM Authentication for Cloud SQL PostgreSQL
- [GA] Committed use discounts (CUD) recommendations
- [GA] GKE internal ingress for internal HTTP(S) LB
- [GA] VPC Services integration with Compute Engine
- [GA] Dataproc support for pd-balanced persistent disk
- [GA] Data Loss Prevention hybrid jobs
- [Preview] Private Service Connect for Google APIs
- [Preview] Config Connector support for TCP-based services
- [1.34.0] Config Connector
That is all for this week!
-Alexis
